03169nam 2200577 a 450 991078038510332120231206221943.01-280-63718-897866106371880-313-01117-6(CKB)111087027038268(EBL)3000876(OCoLC)52768633(SSID)ssj0000126227(PQKBManifestationID)11132746(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000126227(PQKBWorkID)10032228(PQKB)10772813(Au-PeEL)EBL3000876(CaPaEBR)ebr10040692(Au-PeEL)EBL5296662(CaONFJC)MIL63718(MiAaPQ)EBC3000876(MiAaPQ)EBC5296662(EXLCZ)9911108702703826820010626d2002 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA companion to the Victorian novel[electronic resource] /edited by William Baker and Kenneth WomackWestport, Conn. Greenwood Press20021 online resource (457 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-313-31407-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-426) and index.Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; I Victorian Literary Contexts; II Victorian Cultural Contexts; III Victorian Genres; IV Major Authors of the Victorian Era; V Contemporary Critical Approaches to the Victorian Novel; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the ContributorsVictorian novels remain enormously popular today. Some continue to be made into films, while authors such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot are firmly established in the canon and taught at all levels. These works have also attracted a great deal of critical attention, with much current scholarship examining the novel in relation to its historical, political, and cultural contexts. This reference work is an introductory guide to the Victorian novel, its background, and its legacy. The first section looks at the emergence of the Victorian novel and its literary precursors, with particular emphasis on the growth of serialization and the development of the novel of syndication. The second explores significant and social and cultural facets of 19th-century British literature, while the third discusses the principal features of different genres, such as ghost stories, the Gothic, detective fiction, the social problem novel, and contemporary film adaptations. Individual authors are examined in the fourth section, while the fifth overviews various critical approaches and their application to 19th-century fiction.English fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismHandbooks, manuals, etcEnglish fictionHistory and criticism823/.809Baker William1944-1477701Womack Kenneth175931MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910780385103321A companion to the Victorian novel3865965UNINA